Gen W’s Unabridged Dictioweenie
Monday, July 31st, 2006One of the first things to go in the Generation Member’s brain is the section that remembers vocabulary. Perhaps on their induction, Weenies are issued a special dictioweenie that informs them when to get offended. The beauty of this dictioweenie is that reference to any and all definitions are immediately substituted by their offensive counterparts. Take Tar Baby, for instance. The dictionary defines it as “A situation or problem from which it is virtually impossible to disentangle oneself,” after a story by Joel Chandler Harris that described a doll made of tar that was supposed to snare a bre’r rabbit. This week, presidential hopeful Mitt Romney uttered that remark (using the word correctly by dictionary reference) relating to Boston’s Big Dig debacle. Gen W members, on a hunch, consulted their dictioweenies and came up with a lewd term for persons of African descent, or in other words, black people. They immediately cried foul, probably dashing the election hopes of Massachusetts’ poor gov. Oh well, he’s not the first politician to be in a situation or problem from which it is virtually impossible to disentangle oneself, a.k.a. a tar baby.